Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person with refined taste, especially in food and wine.
- noun A person devoted to sensuous pleasure and luxurious living.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To live like an epicure; epicurize.
- noun [cap. or lowercase] A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean: seldom, if ever, used without odium.
- noun Popularly (owing to a misrepresentation of the ethical part of the doctrines of Epicurus), one given up to sensual enjoyment, and especially to the pleasures of eating and drinking; a gormand; a person of luxurious tastes and habits.
- noun Synonyms Epicure, Gourmet, and Gormand agree in representing one who cares a great deal for the pleasures of the table. The epicure selects with a fastidious taste, but is luxurious in the supply of that which he likes. The gourmet is a connoisseur in food and drink, and a dainty feeder. The gormand differs from a glutton only in having a more discriminating taste.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean.
- noun One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who is devoted to
sensual pleasures or sensuous living. - noun A person with highly refined
tastes in food, wine, music et cetera.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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No; the epicure is the lady's humble servant, the Prince d'Athis, a man of cultivated palate and fastidious appetite, spoilt by club cooking and not to be satisfied by silver plate or the sight of fine liveries and irreproachable white calves.
The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Alphonse Daudet 1868
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At a lavish party hosted by the Carmagos, Inza describes himself as an "epicure" whose blood is a "mixture of fine European wines."
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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It was said that a good cook was an epicure, a taster, and a frequent hand-washer, while the bad cook an indiscriminate glutton, "sweaty and crude."
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Bourbon Chocolate Bread Pudding by student epicure:
Last-Minute Valentine's Day Menus Molly Stern 2011
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In Good Food from Mexico, Ruth Watt Mulvey and Luisa Maria Alvarez tell us "legend has it that the supreme epicure Moctezuma sent runners to the heights of the volcano to bring back blocks of snow over which thick chocolate was poured, whipped, and served as a chilled froth."
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It was said that a good cook was an epicure, a taster, and a frequent hand-washer, while the bad cook an indiscriminate glutton, "sweaty and crude."
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Bourbon Chocolate Bread Pudding by student epicure:
Last-Minute Valentine's Day Menus Molly Stern 2011
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Joe was an epicure: a hedonist with a drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other and, usually a forgotten cigar smoldering nearby.
Rozanne Gold: Joe Baum's Nasturtiums: A Tribute Rozanne Gold 2011
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We met the Aussie epicure in the kitchen at NYC's Bar Americain — on loan for the morning from Stone's buddy and fellow gastronome Bobby Flay — for a heaping helping of flapjacks with a side of straight talk.
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Joe was an epicure: a hedonist with a drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other and, usually a forgotten cigar smoldering nearby.
Rozanne Gold: Joe Baum's Nasturtiums: A Tribute Rozanne Gold 2011
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